Technology as Thirdspace: Teachers in Scottish Schools Engaging with and Being Challenged by Digital Technology in First COVID-19 Lockdown

This paper looks at the impact of digital technology on teaching and learning in primary schools Scotland during first COVID-19 lockdown from March to June 2020. The pandemic has challenged our understanding schooling as, for time many years, as we know them were shut school building was removed site learning. uses concept Thirdspace developed by Edward Soja (1996), where is understood an in-between space between binaries that enables possibility think act otherwise. Drawing qualitative data interviews with teachers, this explores how general, particular, facilitated a lockdown. Findings study indicate engaging offers teacher more possibilities than they have come expect physical traditional schooling.